This project was inspired by the gatherer, which data is bound to version and language of the using client. Whenever a new patch comes out, or it comes to port data from an us-client to an european client, all data is screwed up. Hopefully this addon will be finished not too soon, and gatherer will use it. It is an idea I had this afternoon. I didn't make any addon yet, but a library like this one can't be too complicated. I'm going to talk to the developer of gatherer about what he thinks about this project.

"Once upon a time, the wow-community was tired of the crappy interface they had. So they started to build an awesome Interface-Addon, which would be able to please all of them. To prevent this project from succeeding, Blizzard confused their languages so that each spoke a different language. As a result, they could no longer communicate with one another and the work stopped. Until their language was debabeled again, and all data saved by any addon and by any player was readable for all other players too."

My idea is to save the data of an addon not by an ID given from the game client (like gatherer stores all herbs by the name they have ingame), but convert these values in a keyword, which is the same on every system. For example every node found in the western plaguelands (zone number 23 in English, 21 in French and 15 in German) would be saved as"wpl", and that's it. A German client would make"wpl" a 15, a French one a 21, and an English one a 23. The data would look the same on all systems.

Debabel doesn't fix anything in existing addons. It is just a (not yet finished) library to help developers of addons fixing it.